 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1861 - 818 pages
...Ciel, jeté par From heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jov» Sheer o'er thé crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with thé setting sun Dropp'd from thé zénith like a falling star, On Lemnos, thé vEgean isle : thus... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Mythology, Classical - 1860 - 304 pages
...Jupiter's thunderbolts. Nor was his name unheard or unadorned In ancient Greece : and in Ausonian land Men called him Mulciber ; and how he fell From heaven...from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the JEgcan isle. Paradise Lost, Book L Venus was the beautiful wife of Vulcan. -when of old, as mystic... | |
 | Carole Nelson Douglas - Fiction - 1993 - 434 pages
...Milton's Paradise Lost flared into my brain like a burning brand even as I watched: From morn to noon fi£ fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the zenith like a falling star. I had memorized those lines at my father's school table,... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 1096 pages
...and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements; from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the Zenith like a falling star. After being cast out of heaven and leaving hell, Milton's... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 764 pages
...the fall of Milton's Mulciber, the architect of Hell's palace in Paradise Lost. As Milton had put it, "from morn / To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, / A summer's day." And, indeed, if Milton's Satan was damned for the pride that set him against God, so Pope's Timon is damned... | |
 | William Eastlake - Fiction - 1996 - 532 pages
...determined failure. "Sheer o'er the crystal battlements," Phillip Reck repeated as he stumbled forward. "From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day." The edge of the abyss came up before it should and Phillip Reck shut his eyes and someone shouted,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...7562 Paradise Lost Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalatlon. 7563 Paradise Lost t where is the man that can live without dining? MERRILL lames 1926 7327 'Museum Piece' Th Dropped from the zenith like a falling star. 7564 Paradise Lost Nor aught availed him now To have built... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - Fiction - 1999 - 474 pages
.... and how he fell From heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements; from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith like a falling star On Lemnos the Aegean isle . . . and then abruptly undercuts... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - Fiction - 1999 - 476 pages
..., and how he fell From heaven they fabled. thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal hanlements; from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the sening sun Dropped from the zenith like a falling star On Lemnos the Aegean isle ... and then abruptly... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman, Professor Geoffrey H Hartman - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 348 pages
...of crystal battlements and the imperturbability of the summer's day through which the angel drops: from Morn To Noon he fell, from Noon to dewy Eve, A Summers day: while in the last part of his descent an image of splendor and effortlessness outshines... | |
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Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star... 
